Recently, the "overlord" short drama produced by domestic film and television companies has gone abroad, allowing countless European and American audiences to continue to "go up", and the short drama app software Reel Short launched by Chinese ** has also topped the ** champion of the American software app store. "Goodbye, My President" and "The Double Life of a Billionaire Husband" quickly realized the coverage of the "boss" Shuangwen to the global audience.
There are thousands of men in the world, why does the domineering president always make people want to stop?
Hawick Lau plays the role of "domineering president" Mo Shaoqian. ** Screenshot of the TV series "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow".
A modernity variation of historical images
The core traits of a domineering president are outstanding appearance, superior background, and affectionate and single-mindedness. Based on this, it is not difficult for us to find many similar male images from the sea of historical literature.
Scholar Liang Yi once pointed out that the story of "the domineering president fell in love with me" is the ontology of Cinderella's motif. At the end of the 18th century, the English writer Jane Austen gave a specific outline to the vague prince in the fairy tale, "Mr. Darcy was tall and good-looking. handsome and dashing, with an extraordinary aura", and more importantly, he is also "arrogant". The aristocratic background made Darcy unfazed about everything, and these are the reasons why many people regard Mr. Darcy as the predecessor of the domineering president.
Cinderella in the animated film "transforms" into a princess. ** Screenshot from the animated film "Cinderella".
British Mary Sue diva Barbara Cardran portrayed the reserved and arrogant Duke Marquis in a large number of works such as "The Orphan Girl" and "Escape from Marriage", Charlotte Brontë created Rochester with a demonic temperament but a clear conscience in "Jane Eyre", and the unruly and affectionate Rhett in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind", all enrich the appearance of the "boss" character type.
Jane Eyre" Mr. Rochester stills. ** Screenshot from the movie Jane Eyre.
In China, the image of a domineering president also appears in literary works. There are two main types of "domineering presidents" in ancient literature, one is the powerful prince and general, and the other is the rich son with both talent and appearance. The world with them as the protagonists is often a mixture of joy and sorrow, with a strong idealistic color.
The relatively open society of the Tang Dynasty provided a good environment for the creation of popular literature, Bai Xingjian's "The Biography of Li Wa" is one of the masterpieces at that time, the male protagonist Xing Yang was born from a noble background, beautiful appearance, and outstanding literary talent, but after falling in love with the famous prostitute Li Wa in Chang'an, he pursued hard, spent a lot of money, and became a funeral shop, and was whipped by his father and expelled from the house after escaping death. When Li Wa saw Xingyangsheng living on the street, she couldn't help but "lose her voice and grow up", and then encouraged and accompanied Xingyangsheng to gain fame and fame, and the two finally recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, formed a marriage, and staged a legendary story of "the champion of the fallen son, only for the infatuated lover". Although Xing Yangsheng was once poor, the identities of the two were still as good as the settings. And Xingyangsheng's transformation from falling into trouble to being in the middle of the move is like the Tang Dynasty version of "frog becomes prince".
Yue Opera "The Legend of Li Wa". * Screenshot of the program "Oriental Theatre".
The early Qing Dynasty dramatist Hong Sheng's "Palace of Eternal Life" is a more typical "tyrant" literature. On the basis of Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred" and Yuan Dynasty playwright Bai Pu's "Wutong Rain", the play has made a large adaptation of the love story of Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan. Li Longji, who is above 10,000 people, has beautiful women around him, but he is weak for 3,000 people, and he only takes one scoop to drink.
Scholar Yue Shuzhen summed up the emotional exchanges between the two in this way: In "The Palace of Eternal Life", on March 3, Qujiang was wedged up, and Li Longji ordered Mrs. Qiuguo to go to Wangchun to accompany Yang Yuhuan to a banquet, wanting Yang to stay overnight. Yang Yuhuan did not stay, so he committed the crime of "mercy", Li Longji was furious and drove her out of the palace. But after Yang Yuhuan was expelled, Li felt irritable again, and finally had to apologize to Yang Yuhuan and re-summoned to the palace. Isn't this quite a bit of "she runs away from him, and they can't fly"?Emperor Li Longji from the initial intention to the "secret oath" of sincerity, isn't this the emotional development arc of contemporary "hegemonic" literature?Emperor Tang Ming tolerated Yang Yuhuan's "mercy" and jealousy, swore to the double stars with Yang as an equal husband, and even "felt the golden stone and returned to heaven and earth" after the strange path of people and ghosts, which is really a model of the emperor's infatuation with the general!
Kunqu opera "The Palace of Eternal Life". * Screenshot of the show "Theater in the Sky".
The Mandarin Duck and Butterfly faction Zhang Hatshui has inherited the ancient world to a certain extent, and most of the heroes and heroines in ** are rich men and poor women. Jin Yanxi in "The Family of Gold Powder" is a suave and pampered gentleman, who fell in love with the female student Leng Qingqiu at first sight, moved, gave gifts, and wrote love letters to express his heart, which provided a lot of means for today's "boss" to chase his wife. Fan Jiashu, the hero of "Laughing Marriage", was born in a family and had no worries about food and clothing. He has met He Lina, who is influenced by Western culture, and Guan Xiugu, who is chivalrous and righteous, but he has a soft spot for Shen Fengxi, a beautiful girl from a humble background who sings a big drum book under the overpass. However, the male protagonists in these two stories are helpless and gloomy in the end, and the ending of the lovers finally parting also adds a bit of cruel reality to romantic love.
The assembly line of modern society is "overlord".
In the modern context, a domineering president often refers to the leaders or executives of enterprises and conglomerates, who are handsome, wealthy, dark-bellied, and affectionate. In the literary works of the domineering president, those "earthy" and "sweet" plots always make countless audiences "can't stop".
The Daoming Temple of "Meteor Garden" shows the domineering nature with the sentence "What do you want to do if you apologize and use useful words", and the boy who dragged him so hard that people love and hate. Zhong Xiaogang in "Dolphin Bay Lovers" and Lu Zihao in "The Wedding Dress of Heaven" all show the demeanor of a domineering president. In 2005, Shan Junhao of "The Prince Becomes a Frog" was generally recognized as the "first person to be a domineering president", and the smooth action when Ming Dao appeared is still a classic textbook for the appearance of "boss". Since then, "The Devil is by Your Side", "The Star of the Sheep" and "Fated I Love You" have further built the image pedigree of the domineering president.
Stills from "Fate I Love You". ** Screenshot of the TV series "Fated I Love You".
Under the influence of ** and video texts, "President Texts" such as "Bubble Summer" by "Ming Xiaoxi", "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow" by "Bandit I Think", and "The President's Stand-in Ex-Wife" by "An Zhizhi" began to emerge. The rise of mobile terminals has brought the era of online writing, and this type of character image has been further enriched.
In 2014, "Gu Man"'s "Shanshan Comes to Eat" was adapted into the TV series "Shanshan is Coming", and the image of the domineering president entered a broader public vision, and "This fish pond was contracted by you" became a classic line of "boss" confession. Since this year, a large number of romance **IPs have been filmed. In "Why Sheng Xiaomo", He Yichen said to Yimei with a smile on the corner of his mouth in front of the neon sign "I don't want to settle", which made the tossing and turning feelings of missing, waiting, parting and reunion pour out over the years. Mo Shaoqian, Xiao Nai, Han Shangyan and other "boss" roles have set off film and television booms again and again. For a time, the domineering president became a unique male figure in modern pop culture.
Why Sheng Xiaomo" He Yichen stills. ** Screenshot of the TV series "Why Sheng Xiaomo".
In "Journey to the West", Fairy Zixia once said: "My crush is a hero of the world, and one day he will step on colorful auspicious clouds to marry me." For the audience, perhaps the domineering president is such a hero of the world, wearing a golden armor and holy clothes, he clears the haze in the real world and holds up a pure and pure love sky for the audience.
It is worth noting that in the past two years, the charm of the ancient domineering president has gradually faded, and in the increasingly mature female proposition, the "female overlord" has also appeared on the TV screen. Su Mingyu in "It's All Good", and Tang Jing in "The First Half of My Life" are both chic and confident;Ji Nanjia in "I'm Good in Another Country" and Xu Banxia in "The Wind Blows Banxia" are also affectionate and righteous, dare to do and dare to break through, they have become the epitome of the ideal self in the hearts of many audiences, and they entrust everyone with the beautiful expectation of enthusiastically pursuing life and harvesting a better life.
Xu Banxia of "The Wind Blows Banxia" has become the epitome of the ideal self in the hearts of the audience. ** Screenshot of the TV series "The Wind Blows in the Summer".
The narrative of "new tyrant" and "anti-hegemon" is also on the rise. The former is represented by Meng Yanchen in "Fireworks in My World", he is restrained and forbearing, polite and detached, sensible and sensible, "giving the banquet ministers to return drunk, full of royal incense". His love is incomprehensible, which avoids the embarrassment of the "boss" narrative in the current context, and also achieves Meng Yanchen's "new boss".
Fireworks in My World" Meng Yanchen stills. ** Screenshot of the TV series "Fireworks in My World".
The drama series uses the setting of "body swap" and "concentric spell" to make a self-respecting and love-loving demon cry and laugh when he says it, which is an interesting subversion of the traditional image of "boss". Dongfang Qingcang's growth curve is clear and complete, and in the transformation of Little Orchid, the seven emotions and six desires that he lost in order to refine karmic fire were recovered one by one, and he became a plump and interesting "person".
Canglan Jue" Oriental Qingcang stills. ** Screenshot of the TV series "Canglan Decision".
A dream of the son-in-law's counterattack
If the domineering president is the ideal embodiment of a woman's perfect lover, then the image of a son-in-law is a good wish for many men. Ten years ago, Wang Dazhui in the online drama "Never Expected" said, "It won't be long before I will be promoted and raised, become a general manager, become a CEO, marry Bai Fumei, and go to the peak of my life." Echoing with male-themed web dramas such as "Dick Silk Man" and "Never Expected" in the same period, is the rise of the online genre of "Son-in-law Literature". In 2011, "Angry Banana" wrote a "Son-in-law", which was evaluated by netizens as "half a masterpiece";In 2016, "A Dream for a Thousand Years" "God-level Door-to-door Son-in-law", in 2018 "Silent Pastry" "The Strongest Son-in-law in History", and "Lin Yujiangyan" 's "Best Son-in-law" have all strengthened the position of son-in-law literature in the male frequency. The TV series "Son-in-law" and "My Name is Zhao Jiadi" adapted from IP have also received high ratings.
Guo Qilin's "son-in-law" Ning Yi. ** TV series "Son-in-law".
In fact, the image of a son-in-law has a history of development for thousands of years in China. Originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it refers to a man who married and settled in a woman's family, and then evolved into a husband who had a very close relationship with the Yue family after the development and transformation of the past dynasties.
In ancient times, there was also son-in-law literature. Tang Shen Jiji's "Pillow Notes" wrote the story of a scholar. Lu Sheng, a poor scholar, married the daughter of a rich family, Cui, and with the help of his wife, he became an official and made a fortune, became famous, and his family prospered, and then passed away peacefully. However, all this is just a hearty dream of Lu Sheng. When he woke up, he was still a poor scholar. This is what we call "a dream of yellow sorghum" today. The dream is the fulfillment of desires, a dream of a son-in-law, which carries the ultimate expectation of Lu Sheng and the author to "walk to the pinnacle of life".
This dream also reflects a kind of extravagant marriage. Some writers have also used this as a basis to create many images of ungrateful and money-hungry sons-in-law, such as the poor scholar Mo Ji in "Yu Shi Mingyan" and Zhao Ang in "Xing Shi Hengyan". However, Wang Shifu's miscellaneous drama "Lu Mengzheng Breaking the Kiln in the Wind and Snow" in the Yuan Dynasty can be regarded as a reversal of the image of a bad son-in-law. The script mainly writes that Liu Yue, a rich girl, threw hydrangeas on the color building to choose a son-in-law, but she took a fancy to the poor talent Lu Mengzheng. The persuasion of the staff was ineffective, and in a fit of anger, she was driven to live in the broken kiln of Lu Mengzheng. Ten years later, Lu Meng was the champion and returned to the scene, so Liu Yue'e's father and daughter were reconciled and reunited. Lu Meng is reversing the humble situation with his own strength, quite a bit of the joy of "today you ignore my love, tomorrow I will make you unattainable" in today's son-in-law literature.
From the Tang legend to the Song and Yuan dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the combination of a poor scholar who has not yet reached high school and a rich lady who has lived in the boudoir for a long time can be regarded as an extended narrative of excessive marriage. Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying in "The Legend of Yingying", Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang in "The Peony Pavilion" are all typical "high women and low men" combinations. What's more, it is beyond reality and moves towards the romantic and beautiful imagination of gods and monsters. The Tang legend "The Biography of Liu Yi" tells the legendary story of the scholar Liu Yi who rescued the dragon girl who was abused by her in-laws, and the dragon girl fell in love with Liu Yi and vowed not to marry others. In the folk love legend "The Legend of the White Snake", the snake demon Bai Suzhen, who has been cultivated for thousands of years, transforms into a human form, meets Xu Xian in the West Lake, and takes shelter from the rain in the same boat. Legendary stories such as "Seven Fairies" and "Nie Xiaoqian" all show an obvious trend of weak men and strong women.
Gilt carved white snake story pattern wood. ** Guangchang County Museum.
Whether it is a mortal or a god or a monster, although the male protagonists in these works are more average in terms of social status and financial power, they are often talented and righteous, and they will definitely be able to gain fame and fame, and they will be knighted in the future. The woman has never been interested in fame and fortune, and her love is sincere. This is the ** written by the genius, and it is also written by the genius.
All in all, the two images of "boss" and son-in-law, these two images seem to be very different, but they go hand in hand from ancient times to the present, carrying the reader's beautiful vision of sincere love and accessible life, and becoming a spiritual haven in difficult times in life.
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